Filled from the ranks of Something Awful, the GOONion are a culmination of numerous players and guilds spanning numerous servers. The GOONion are often associated with cheating and exploiting, which is inaccurate. Most of AE holds a dim view of GOONs as a result of their awesomeness, disrespect, and general disregard for other players. Despite these views they are widely regarded as the funniest guild on the server, which some believe may be the root of all the hatred. Probably it's mostly because the Goonion prevented the Alpha simmers from coming over onto Beta and creating Alpha 2.0. Not getting twice their amount of e-spartard allotment, Beta folks have forever hated the Goons.